dichotomous
adjective
divided or dividing into two parts.
dichotomously
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a word derived from
dichotomous.
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a word derived from
dichotomy.
dichotomynoundivision into two parts, kinds, etc.; subdivision into halves or pairs.
Example Sentences
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Do we categorize them dichotomously or plot them along a bell curve?
From Washington Post ● Sep. 20, 2018
So that Britain's intelligence war against communism was also one which sought, dichotomously, to both preserve and retreat from empire.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 31, 2013
The lepidodendra bore linear one-nerved leaves, and the stems always branched dichotomously and possessed a central pith.
From The Story of a Piece of Coal What It Is, Whence It Comes, and Whither It Goes by Edward A. Martin
Carbonous, black, smooth, repeatedly dichotomously branched, the ultimate branches bearing ovate, acute fruiting bodies.
From Synopsis of Some Genera of the Large Pyrenomycetes Camilla, Thamnomyces, Engleromyces by C. G. Lloyd
Thallus dichotomously divided, the divisions linear, channelled, with entire narrowly membranous margins, green above, dark purple beneath and furnished with transverse semicircular scales not exceeding the margin.—Rocky ground, N. Y.
From The Manual of the Botany of the Northern United States Including the District East of the Mississippi and North of North Carolina and Tennessee by Asa Gray
